I am thinking about your idea of making the dining room into a guest bedroom next to a full bath, then using the bedroom/office next to the kitchen to expand the kitchen, change the window there into a back door, and change the master bedroom closet space for some of the office space. That is what you wanted to do, right? First, over in the dining area, the bathroom needs to be enlarged to add a tub or shower. That space must come from the pantry area, I guess. Just extend the half-bath wall until it hits the outside wall and remove the wall between the bath and the pantry, and there is your full bathroom space. Add a bathroom window, now that you have an outside wall, if you can. Now this small third bedroom will need a closet, to be a legal bedroom. Your best bet for that is to use the wall adjacent to the garage. The door to the bedroom will be a mirror image of the door to the bathroom, on the other side of the wall that separates them. This way, the bedroom does not really share a wall with the garage, it is the closet that will be colder in the winter and hotter in the summer. I have no idea how small that bedroom becomes, since you do not have any dimensions listed in the diagram I used. The rooms are really too small to add unnecessary doorways. You don't have to have the third bedroom have a separate entrance into the bathroom. The bathroom door is just outside the bedroom door, and that is the best you can do with the space that you have. After all, there is not a master bath in this house, why have a guest bedroom with a private entrance to a bath? What do you think, is the guest room usable?

My greenhouse sits on a large deck floored with pressure treated 2x4s. I used polystyrene boat carpet to floor the greenhouse. It 's relatively cheap, tough, drains water, not damaged by water or sunlight, and dries fast. It's hard to stain, but it can be done if you're a klotz like me. I just laid it over the decking and tacked it down along the edges with pressure treated 2x2 screwed into the wood greenhouse foundation. Commercial grade aluminum sills hold the carpet in the 4' wide doorway on each end. No underlayment, adhesive or anything like that. The carpet has been there going on six years and shows no signs of deterioration. The picture was taken when the greenhouse was a year or so old:

PPF & cpartist - Thank you for the changes!! Kristen and Naf Naf I appreciate all the help. Thanks to everyone for your comments and opinions! Question - On the changes you both made the stone base around the house was still there. Do you recommend keeping that? Still working on the color of the brick. I will attach pictures of 3 of the bricks I have liked thus far. Just scroll right to left below. May go for a lighter option. Any ideas for a brick color? The one that the architect originally did I was not fond of. The dormers on the garage were to allow light in the bonus room so I would opt to keep them. Would you recommend changing the front facing garage dormer from a curved to a rectangular window to keep consistent with the windows? Would shutters on the front windows work - I was not thinking about having them. Front Entrance - I know everyone says to simplify but would you recommend adding some an element to the front door. I found a picture but I would not go as detailed probably. Thoughts on the concept? I just wanted some character but not sure how to go about it. Roof - I will look into Slate. Is it generally very expensive? Sorry for taking so long to reply. I have been working long hours.

Hanging that painting in the dining space is an interesting idea. The dining space is right off the living space, it's just one long wall. But it just might be my solution if I can hang it high enough so as not to have the dining table take away from the view of the painting. The dining table is a glass top rectangle with a marble block base. I plan on finding low back dining chairs (white & wood) and adding a bench for sitting closest to the wall. How does that sound?